On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Damien Pollet <damien.pol...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 29 January 2012 21:11, Guillermo Polito <guillermopol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I've spent a few hours playing with Alien+FFI and I did want to have a > > Command line interface to play and use as a quick browser. > > This is something I'd like to have as a part of Coral. > > What's your opinion on the FFI-libc approach compared to OSProcess? I > was actually thinking of doing something like that using NativeBoost > :) > There is a third option which just uses the stdio streams in StandardFileStream. this has been working in the Cog VMs for some time now. > > Gofer it > > squeaksource: 'CLInterface'; > > package: 'ConfigurationOfCLInterface'; > > load. > > > > ConfigurationOfCLInterface load. > > > > > > To play with it write a script, for example startCLI.st, with the > following: > > > > CLInterface start > > > > > > > > And then, from the command line > > > > CogVM -vm-display-null <image> startCLI.st > > > > > > What it does support? > > - executes smalltalk expressions > > - handles the errors and shows them into the stdout (so it does not > explode > > :P) > > - stores variables as a workspace > > Since I used standard C functions (fgets and printf only) this should > work > > on every platform from scratch (having a VM with FFI working, of > course)... > > > > The problems I've ran so far: > > - blocking FFI blocks the vm. I've not tried yet to use threads through > FFI > > (and I don't know if it works. Does it?). But It should be great to > start > > a headless seaside server with a command line :/. > > > > Ok, it's a very simple thing, but it allows to execute a expression from > a > > remote server via ssh without doing much :). > > > > Guille > > > > -- > Damien Pollet > type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet > > -- best, Eliot
